Challenging the Modern Synthesis: Adaptation, Development, and Inheritance

Philippe Huneman · Denis M. Walsh

2017년 8월 · Oxford University Press

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This volume of original essays surveys recent challenges to the Modern Synthesis theory of evolution that arise from empirical advances in the understanding of evolution since the advent of the 21st century. It presents a spectrum of views by philosophers and biologists on the status and prospects of the Modern Synthesis.

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Philippe Huneman is CNRS Research Professor and Professor of Philosophy at LInstitut dHistoire et de Philosophie des Science et des Technique, Université Paris I SorbonneWalsh: Canada Research Chair in Philosophy of Biology in the Department of Philosophy, Institute for the History and Philosophy of Science and Technology and the Department of Ecology and evolutionary Biology, University of Toronto. Denis M. Walsh received a PhD in Biology at McGill University and a PhD in Philosophy at King's College London. He held the Canada Research Chair in Philosophy of Biology at the University of Toronto until 2015.